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Which step of read alignment involves building a large index database from a reference genome and/or the set of reads?
Which step of read alignment involves building a large index database from a reference genome and/or the set of reads?
- Step 4
- Step 2
- Step 1 (correct)
- Step 3
What data structure is presented as an example for storing the occurrence locations of extracted seeds in the reference genome?
What data structure is presented as an example for storing the occurrence locations of extracted seeds in the reference genome?
- Suffix tree
- Hash table (correct)
- Array
- Linked list
What is the purpose of the seed-and-extend strategy in read alignment?
What is the purpose of the seed-and-extend strategy in read alignment?
- To quickly locate genomic subsequences
- To collect all the seeds (correct)
- To build a large index database
- To store the reference genome
What is the name given to the parts of the read that match the reference without errors?
What is the name given to the parts of the read that match the reference without errors?
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What does the reference aligner do if the seeds are long enough to exact match only a small number of places?
What does the reference aligner do if the seeds are long enough to exact match only a small number of places?
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